History will be made at a heaving Hutt Recreation Ground next Sunday afternoon when the Hutt Old Boys Marist Eagles and Wainuiomata meet in the 2014 Jubilee Cup final. In an All Hutt Valley final, HOBM will appear in their first final since 2007 and Wainuiomata will be playing in their maiden season decider. Both teams won well today in contrasting circumstances. Top qualifier HOBM beat Oriental-Rongotai 43-26, ending Ories' run of three consecutive finals appearances. Wainuiomata pulled clear to defeat Marist St Pat's 26-13...More

Above: Running away with it. Can Wainuiomata make history tomorrow and play their way into their first Jubilee Cup final? It's semi-finals day tomorrow. As well as the matches in both the Jubilee and Hardham Cups, there are also the semi-finals in the top Colts division, another round in the lower grades, and the resumption of college rugby. Conditions should be fantastic and ideal for expansive rugby. Jubilee Cup Hutt Old Boys Marist (1) v Oriental-Rongotai (4) When the draw for the semi-finals was confirmed following last week's final round of matches, most people's minds probably flashed back to last year's match-up between these two sides at the same stage, the epic extra-time marathon won 30-27 by Ories...More

Frank Walker (pictured above top row, second from the right) was Petone's hooker throughout their golden era in the 1970s and into the 1980s. As a player, Walker won Jubilee Cups with Petone in 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1980 and 1982. Later as Petone's coach, his teams won the Cup in 1989, 1992 and 1993. He played 65 matches for Wellington and was a Maori All Black, and was Wellington's first coach in the professional era in the mid-1990s. Do you know how many Senior 1 [Premier] appearances you made for Petone and when were your first and last matches? I played 198 games for Petone and I finished in 1982...More

St Pat's Silverstream have beaten St Pat's Town 20-18 to qualify top for the Wellington First XV Premier playoffs this weekend. Silverstream held off a tenacious St Pat's Town, surviving a late scare with livewire St Pat's Town halfback and goal kicker Zac Donaldson missing an ambitious penalty attempt from halfway with the final play of the match. Top qualifiers Silverstream and second placed Scots College both now have this Saturday's opening round of Premier 1 playoff matches off, while St Pat's Town, already guaranteed third before this match, play sixth placed St Bernard's College Silverstream, who dominated the set-piece exchanges, particularly at lineout time, but for the most part failed to capitalise on a glut of possession, won the match midway through the second half when they broke through from close range after stealing a St Pat's Town defensive lineout...More

Above: Ories wing Afa Fa'atau steaming up field with HOBM lock Jeremy Thrush in pursuit in last year's epic semi-final between the two teams. As part of the countdown to this weekend's Jubilee Cup playoffs, here's a look at 10 memorable semi-final matches over the past two decades. An earlier version of this article was published here this time last year, but it's been updated with some different matches: 1989: Petone 24 - Hutt Old Boys 20 The original overtime thriller, that saw Petone finally wrestle the initiative and win the match from the 90th minute onwards...More

Above: Tawa's supporters at last year's Jubilee Cup final. Tawa were the third team in as many years to win the title, after Ories and MSP.? The 2014 Wellington Premier, Premier 2 and Colts club rugby season is now in championship mode. It's do or die from this point on, as the 12 teams left standing in the Jubilee, Hardham and John E Kelly Memorial Cups prepare for the first weekend of knockout rugby this coming Saturday. In the Jubilee Cup, top qualifiers and 2007 champions Hutt Old Boys Marist host 2011 winners and fourth placed Oriental-Rongotai at the Hutt Recreation Ground and second placed Wainuiomata and third placed Marist St Pat's meet in the other semi-final at William Jones Park...More

Above: Action from the City and Suburbs match at Porirua Park in early May. UPDATED: A new and exciting rugby competition will kick off next month, featuring the top Premier rugby players from the Wellington region.Four teams have been selected from the Jubilee and Hardham Cup competitions, to play each other over three consecutive weekends, starting on Saturday August 16 at Porirua Park.The competition will involve a Wellington Samoan side, along with Wellington Maori, Wellington Suburbs, and Wellington City teams...More

Above: Action from the last round Colts Division 1 match?between Petone and Wellington, which Petone won 8-3 to advance to the semi-finals this coming weekend. UPDATED: Marist St Pat's and Oriental-Rongotai clinched the remaining two Jubilee Cup berths up for grabs today in an exciting final afternoon of round-robin club rugby in Wellington today. MSP and Ories both put on bombastic displays of thrilling attacking rugby to over-run their last round opposition, MSP racing away early in the second half to take a 27-3 lead, eventually winning 34-20 over Old Boys University, and Ories' big-name players again to the fore in their 33-20 win over Petone, after leading 33-6 at one stage...More

Above: Wainuiomata flanker Shahn Eru attempting to break through MSP's ranks last weekend. Both these teams are in the mix to host a home semi-final next weekend.? The final weekend of the 2014 Jubilee Cup round-robin season has the hallmarks of being both an enthralling and nervous one. Although Hutt Old Boys Marist and Wainuiomata have secured two of the places in next week's semi-finals, the other six sides are all in with chances of being the other two involved in the playoffs for the ultimate prize so there will be plenty of listening to radios, phone calls and checking text messages and social media to gauge how their team stands...More

Above: Paulo Aukuso running strongly last weekend for Ories against Upper Hutt. Photo credit: David Brownlie. If all goes to plan, talented Oriental-Rongotai centre Paulo Aukuso will play his 150th match for the Ories Premiers next weekend in the Jubilee Cup semi-finals, alongside several returning Hurricanes and All Blacks, good mates and cousins. What's more, it could be against Hutt Old Boys Marist in a repeat of last year's epic 100-minute semi-final which Ories won 30-27, propelling Aukuso's Ories to their third straight Jubilee Cup final...More